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March 8, 1932. E GE|GER 1,848,774

GARAGE Original Filed July 26, 1928 2 Sheets-Sheet l I INVENTOR 35 H' g-Eva/5i Geyer ATTORNEY E. GEIGE'R March 8, 1932.

GARAGE Original Filed July 26, 1928 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 lillllliillllllfl10 its. Q.

PatentedMar. 8, 1932 I v i r nnnsrenrenn, or mvrneron, new JERSEY IGARAGE I APiJIic'atibn first my 26, I928, s en in. 295,586. 'R'e'n'ewedMarch 26, 1930;

The present invention, while capable of a the banks of verticalshaftways for the cabin wide range "or utility for storage purposes,"chains, need have no communication with finds its preferred embodimentin a skysuch shartways. These storage floors are scraper or tower garageer the general supplied with odd-sized cars to be parked or characterdisclosed in my pri r: Patent stored through the intermediacyorelevators #1,636,'600 granted July 19th, 1927. at more or lessconventional constructionar- It will be recalled that in this patentI'disranged at opposite ends of the storagefl'oors closed the usebfendless chains of connected and wholly exteriorly of the cabin chainele'v-at'er storage cabins traveling through the 'shaftways and thespace enclosed thereby.

orbital paths defined by spaced vertical shaft- I The invention ineffect involves the use of ways and up er and lower connective crossthepatented endless cabin chain garage sysways; The space between the banksof vertem in combination with a wholly indepentical shartways washorizontally sub-divided dent garage system, the two systems being byfloors, the upper of which served as car so interrelated and interlockedthat the lat- ,i storage floors while two or the lower ones terefficiently utilizes all of the waste space 5, served as car deliveryand receiving fl'oors. of the former and without in any way de- Aprimary object of the present invention traeti'ng from its'erfici'entoperation or its is to overcome certain inherent disadvanability toreceive and deliver large numbers ta'ges or the patented construction,notably to of cars in a short space of time.

g conserve space, to provide greater volume of The building of thepresent invention is so live storage space, to facilitate theexpedesigned that it is particularly well suited for 'ditious receptionand delivery of cars and the erection of sky-scraper garages on a reltoprovide a garage building which may be atiyely narrow lot running fromstreet to profitably erected and operated on a relativestreet in thecenter of a block; Present build- 1 2:, 1y small building lot incongestedxdis'tric'ts, ingregulations which call for set-backs or whereproperty is generally too valuable to terraces render it impossible touse full length justify the building of the present type of cabin chainsat the front and rear of such a low garages. building; With the resentinvention, haw- Space economy is effected primarily by the ever, thecabin chain,- shaftways extend the so use of relatively small stbragecabins pro- 'full height of the building, intermediate the 3 portionedto accommodate standard-sized ends of the latter, and the set-backs areprocars, whereby the cross-sectional area of the vided in the extendedends of the supplemenshaftway's and crossways may be reduced, talstorage floors of the secondary garage, the cabins themselves made orsmaller dimenwhere great height is not needed;

23:, sions in all directions and a greater number Such a building planalso promotes high 35 of cabins consequently used to make up anefficiency of the endless chain garage van endless cabin chain of anygiven length. ready accessibility for motorists in that a A specialcar-hoisting and car-parking 'carmay enter or leayethe garage fromeither means, wholl independent or the eterage or two streets. y cabins,is used for handling odd-sined cars, With the above noted and otherobjects in thereby eliminating the need for unduly view, the inventionconsists in certain novel large storage cabins, permitting odd-sizedfeatures of construction and combinations cars to be compactly arrangedin the storage and arrangements of parts which will be more 7 spaceswhichare provided for them, and obfully herin'after described andpointed out iating the necessity for reducing available 111 the claims.live storage space in that none or the stor The invention may be 'morefully under-' age cabins are used as conveyor elevators for "stood fromthe following description in conthe storage orparking floors of thebuilding. "nection with the accompanying drawings,

In accordance Wltll the present invention, wherein: u a

' the central storage floors, confined between I Figure 1 is a brokenlongitudinal-vertical 10o walls of a relatively long, narrow sectionalview through a garage embodying the invention.

Figure 2 is a transverse, vertical sectional view through the top of thegarage taken approximately 011 the line 22 of Figure 1.

Figure 3 is a view complementing Figure 2, showing the lower end of thegarage and taken on the same line 22.

Figure 4 is a broken sectional plan view taken approximately 44 ofFigure 1.

Figure 5 is an enlarged sectional detail through one of the elevatorplatforms which convey cars to and from the storage floors, this viewbeing taken approximately on the line 5-5 of Figure l.

It may be noted at the outset that all of the figures of the drawingsare highly diagrammatic and for the sake of clarity avoid all showing ofdetails of the endless cabin chains and various other equipment which isdisclosed in my prior patent above identified and in various copenclingapplications.

In the drawings, I have used the reference numerals 10, to designate theopposite side building, this building being provided with a basementfloor 11 and a central roof section 12. The side walls 10 cooperate withtransverse vertical walls 13 and longitudinal vertical walls 14 todefine banks of vertical shaftways 15 at opposite sides of the building,these shaftways extending the full height of the buildmg and beingconnected at their tops and bottoms by horizontal cross-ways 16 and 17.

Trains of storage cabins 18 are mounted on endless chains 19 actuated inany suitable manner (not shown) for movement through the orbital pathsdefined by the vertical shaftways 15 and the upper and lower crossways16 and 17.

As thus far described, the construction may be entirely conventional andin accordance with my prior patent. An improvement over such patent,however, resides in the use of a series of horizontal storage floors 20,the restricted intermediate portions of which are disposed between thebanks of shaftways 15. These floors instead of terminating at the endsof the shaftway banks, as in my prior patent, extend therebeyond, suchfloor extensions being numbered 21 and being the full width of thebuilding. In order to comply with building requirements, terraces orset-backs such as 22 and 23 are provided by cutting down or steppingback certain of the upper storage floor extensions v21. In this mannerbuilding laws are complied with without the need for reducing the totalheight of any of the shaftway units 15 16 and 17.

Preferably the lowermost of the floors between the shaftways 15comprises a receiving floor 24 while the immediately superjacent floor25 serves as a car delivery floor.

on the staggered line Floors 24 and 25 at their ends communicate byramps 24a and 25a with common driveways 26 at opposite ends of thebuilding, which driveways communicate with the two streets on which theends of the building front. Preferably control rooms, or control houses27 are mounted between the ramps 24a and 25a and permit business to beconveniently transacted with the drivers of cars either when entering orleaving the garage.

Vertical shaftways 28 and 29 are provided in diagonally opposite cornersof the building accommodating vertically movable elevators or hoistingplatforms 30 of more or less conventional general design. Theseplatforms or elevator cars may be operated by cables or plungers in anywell-known manner and are used for transporting cars to and deliveringcars from the storage floors 20 and the storage floor extensions 21. a

Each shaftway 28, 29 at the ground floor of the building is providedwith an entrance doorway 32 in one and through which a car may be drivenfrom the street directly on to the elevator platform 30. The shaftwaydoorways which communicate with the various storage floor extensions 21,however, are not alined with the doorways 32 but comprise relativelyelongated openings 33 provided in the inner sides of the shaftways andextending from the innermost corners thereof. This arrangement ofelevator doorways and shaft ways 28 and 29 together with a specialcarhandling mechanism mounted on the platforms 30 facilitates theconvenient handling of cars at the storage floors. Preferably apivotally mounted skeleton platform 34 is ar ranged on each of theplatforms 30. This platform is axially centered with the elongatedplat-form 30 as shown at the lefthand corner of Figure 4 at the timewhen the car is driven in through the doorway 32. It consists preferablyof a pair of parallel rails 35 connected by cross-braces 36 and 37. Oneof the braces 37 has a pivotal connection at 38 with the platform 30 andthe other crossbrace 36 carries a roller 40 travelling on a bearingplate 40 on the platform 30.

By virtue of this arrangement, when one of the elevators 30 reaches astorage floor extension 21, the swinging skeleton platform 34 may bemanually or otherwise drawn partially through thedoorway 33 as seen atthe upper right hand corner of Figure 4, so that a car without turningthe wheels may be driven straight out as indicated by the arrow inFigure 4 and driven into any of the numerous parking places showndiagrammatically at 41. Subsequently skeleton platform 25 is pushed backinto the elevator to clear the storage floor and permit the elevator toagain travel in its shaftway. In Figure 4 elevator shaftway 29accommodates a receiving elevator 30 which carries odd-sized cars to thestorage floors and the shaftway 28 seem het l emeshewmmefieaeeemmedefiee the elemher 3& WQ a Q e ethe sinomee firms; m l del iveeshem thwqglx the sla itlewex dew E'r m' the, fi zego g hmmdepemlem elegem when max op rete wh m? iza ependem y of 12k o her am ye so m wed-gatedand m, me system oi? the. mate; speee. 05% he other pe mlie ihe. econmmeh eneetzlem Qfieempen ga ages-z e151 neletieely nemz lss'a -nd mits.storage; cabi s; to; be used:

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sgdoL systemsinby said? sha ftway svand a he smfnwfiax bonkendyelevators l zengediamhe n-ds eiaaid fio n fifor convey- Aeen fge-nhuildgz neluding banks o tops and bottoms, storage floors disposed betweenthe banks of shaftways and extending longitudinally therebeyond,elevator shaftways adjacent opposite ends of the building, verticallymovable conveyor elevators therein adapted to convey cars to and fromthe ends of the storage floors, endless chains of car storage cabinsmounted to travel in'the orbital pathways defined by the first mentionedshaftways and cross-ways, and superimposed car receiving and deliveryfloors for the storage cabins disposed in the space between the shaftwaybanks and below the storage floors.

7. A garage building including banks of vertical shaftways at oppositesides thereof, upper and lower transverse cross-ways connecting pairs ofopposite shaftways at their tops and bottoms, storage floors disposedbetween the banks of'shaftways and extending longitudinally therebeyond,other elevator shaftways adjacent opposite ends of the building,vertically movable conveyor elevators therein'adapted to convey cars toand from the ends of the storage floors, endless chains of car storagecabins mounted to travel in the orbital pathways defined by the firstmentioned shaftways and crossways, superimposed car receiving anddelivery fioors for the storage cabins disposed-in the space between theshaftwaybanks and below the storage floors, driveways communicating withthe receiving and delivery floors through one end of the building, andmeans independent of said driveways for loading and unloading theconveyor elevators.

8. A garage building including banks of vertical shaftways at oppositesides thereof, upper and lower transverse crossways, connecting pairs ofopposite shaftways at their tops and bottoms, storage floors disposedbetween the banks of shaftways, other elevatorshaftways adjacent theends of the building, vertically movable conveyor elevators thereinadapted to convey cars to and from the storage floors, endless chains ofcar storage cabins mounted to travel in the orbital pathways defined bythe first mentioned shaftways and crossways, superimposed car receivingand delivery floors for the storage cablns disposed in the space betweenthe shaftway banks and below the storage floors, and drivewayscommunicating with the receiving and delivery floors through one end ofthe building. I l r 9. A garage building including banks of verticalshaftways at opposite sides thereof, upper and lower transversecross-ways, connecting pairs of opposite shaftways at their tops andbottoms, storage floors disposed between the banks ofshaftwa-ys, otherelevator shaftways adjacent the opposite endsof the building, verticallymovable conveyor elevators therein adapted to convey cars to and fromthe ends of the storage floors, endless chains of car storage cabinsmounted to travel in the orbital pathways defined by the first mentionedshattways and crossways, superimposed car receiving'and delivery floorsfor the storage cabinsdi-sposed in the space between the shaft'way banksand below the storage floors, and driveway ramps connecting therecelving and delivery floors wlth the street through one end of thebuilding.

- 10. A garage building including banks of vertical shaftways atopposite sides thereof,

ways adjacent the opposite ends of the building, conveyor elevatorstherein adapted to convey cars to and from the ends of the storagefioors, endless chains of car storage cabins mounted to travel in theorbital pathways defined by the first mentioned shaftways and crossways,car receiving and delivery floors for the storage cabins disposed in thespace between the shaftway banks and below the storage floors, drivewayscommunicating with the receiving and delivery floors through one end ofthe building, the shaftways of the conveyor elevators havingdoorways'therein communicating directly with the street.

11. A relatively long narrow building of substantial height and a pairof independently operatinginterlocking car storage systems housedtherein, one of said systems including endless chains of car storagecab-ins, shaftways at opposite sides of the building spaced from theends thereof and horizontal cross-waysat the" top and bottom of thebuilding connectingsaid shaftways, 'saidshaftways and crossways definingan orbital path for the travel of the cabins of the endless V chains,the other system including storage floors, the restricted intermediateportions of which are disposed between the banks of shaftways and theends of which extend the a full width of the building, and conveyorelevators disposed at the ends of the building beyond the storage cabinshaftways for delivering and receiving cars from the storage floors.

1*2.'A relatively long, narrow building of substantial height and a pairof independently operating interlocking car storage systems housedtherein, one of said systems including endless chains of car storagecabins, shaftways at opposite sides of the building spaced from theendsthereof and horizontal cross-ways at the top and bottom of thebuilding connecting said shaftways, said shaftways and cross-waysdefining an orbital path of travel for thecabins .ofthe' endless chains,the other system including storage floors, the intermediate portions ofwhich are disposed between the banks of shaftways and the ends of whichextend the full width of the building, conveyor elevators disposed atthe ends of the building beyond the storage cabin shaftways fordelivering and receiving cars from the storage fioors,superimposedloading and unloading floors for the storage cabin system arrangedbetween the banks of shaftways and beneath the storage floors, saidloading and unloading floors communicating by driveways with the streetthroughone end of the building. 7

13. An elevator car including a floor longer in one horizontal dimensionthan in the other, a track unit swivelly mounted adjacent one end on thefloor, the car having a doorway in one end thereof whereby a vehicle maybe rolled on to the track unit through such door when the track unit isaxially alined with the floor of the car, said car also having anelongated doorway in one side thereof whereby a I vehicle may be rolledoff the track unit after the latter has been swung on its swivel bearingto a position where it projects through I and beyond the said doorway.

14. A relatively long, narrow building of substantial height and a pairof independently operating interlocking car storage systems housedtherein, one of said systems including endless chains of car storagecabins,

shaftways at opposite sides of the building a spaced from the endsthereof and horizontal cross-ways at the top and bottom of the buildingconnecting said shaftways, said shaftways and crossways defining anorbital path of travel for the cabins of the endless V chains, the othersystem including storage floors, the intermediate portions of whichextend the full width of the building, conveyor elevators disposed atthe ends of the building beyond the storage cabin shaftways, for

delivering and receiving cars from the storage floors,superimposedloading and unloading floors for the storage cabin systemarranged between the banks of shaftways and beneath the storage floors,said loading and unloading floors communicating by driveways with the 1street through one end of the building, the shaftways for the conveyorelevators of the second system having doorways therein at street levelcommunicating directly-with the outside of the building.

15. A pair of independently operating car 7 storage systems housedwithin a single buildlng and inter-fitting w1th each other, one systemincluding endless trains of car storage cabins, the other systemincluding storage floors and an elevator for feeding cars to saidfloors. 1

I Signed at New York in the county of New York and State of New'Yorkthis 24th day of July D. 1928.

ERNST GEIGER.

